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the maximum capacity was only 55 MW instead of the expected 78 MW. The contract was terminated for non-performance. Reclamation has now awarded a new contract to redo the generator and to uprate the second generator. Uprating of Morrow Point No.1 is now underway. The National Park Service administers recreational facilities. In 1990 there were 1,102,283 visitors (latest available figures). 5. STORAGE UNITS FISHERY INFORMATION The Flaming Gorge, Wayne N. Aspinall, Glen eanyon, and Navajo Units continue to provide excellent warm and cold-water fishing, both in the reservoirs and in tailwater streams below the dams. Use on the reservoirs currently totals approximately 945,477 angler days each year. Lake Powell provides approximately half of the total use, with the remainder coming from the other reservoirs. Angling use on the reservoirs appears to be constant, while demand and use for the four tailwaters is increasing dramatically. Lake Powell is almost exclusively a warm-water fishery with striped bass, crappie, walleye, channel catfish, and smallmouth and largemouth bass as the harvested species. Navajo and Flaming Gorge provide both warm-water and cold-water fishing, with rainbow trout and kokanee the predominant cold-water harvest and catfish, bass, and crappie (at Navajo only) the preferred warm- water fishes. Flaming Gorge also provides a world -class lake trout fishery. The Aspinall reservoirs are exclusively cold-water fisheries, with kokanee and rainbow trout the predominant catch. The four tailwaters have provided "blue ribbon" trout fishing that many view as some of the best in the western United States. eombined, the annual use of these tailwaters is approximately 500,000 angler days annually. The Green River (below Flaming Gorge Dam) receives about half of the total use with the Colorado River (below Glen Canyon Dam), the San Juan River (below Navajo Dam), and the Gunnison River (below Crystal Dam) providing the remainder. Restrictions on fishing gear and the allowable harvest have been required on these rivers to insure quality use as fishing pressure increases annually. Estimates of the value of a day's fishing on these quality streams range from $20 to $100 per day, based on travel cost studies. Using those estimates, the value of these tailwater fisheries could approach $50 million 38